Saturday, September 7, 2013

A professor at the Accademia Brera in Milan, Enrico Bordoni was a member of the abstract art group MAC, Movimento Arte Concreta, which flourished from 1948-1958.

Enrico Bordoni

Untitled lithograph, 1949

Enrico Bordoni

Untitled lithograph, 1949

Enrico Bordoni

Untitled lithograph, 1951

Enrico Bordoni

Untitled woodcut, 1955

Bordoni was one of the most prolific contributors to MAC's publication Documenti d'arte d'oggi. His original silkscreens, woodcuts and lithographs show a powerful and highly-alert sense of rhythm, and their gestural authority and boldly vibrant use of colour link this non-figurative Italian "concrete art" movement with the contemporary Abstract Expressionism of the USA.

2 comments:

Enrico Bordoni's work is wonderful and strong. I like your description: "highly-alert sense of rhythm" It expresses well the vibrancy of his images. I wonder if these specific "movements" still exist today? Perhaps I just have no idea about them. To define an art movement seems such a cohesive and comradely way for the individual artist to organize his/her work, and it is certainly helpful for people like me to "read" the work. I very much appreciate your knowledge on the history of printmaking.

Glad you like them, Nancy. I suspect cohesive artistic "movements" are a thing of the past, as artistic success seems to be largely defined now by the individual's ability at self-advertisement. Like you, I rather like the sense of mutuality involved in a group like MAC.